Guild Wars 2

Caradryan.1795:

I know a lot of people are feeling indignant at the moment. There are a lot of people who slogged through the event in its entirety, only to watch other people on their server get the precursor that they wanted.

Note: this post is explicitly addressed at those of us who did manage to finish the event and loot the big crab chest.

The thing is, Anet didn’t tie any of us down in a chair and force us to play through the whole event. Each one of us who did the thing chose, out of our own free will, to finish the event chain and go through the thing. We can blame everything from advertisements of the Lost Shore events to bad luck to whatever, but in the end, we were the one who did the whole thing through. If nothing else, the process – if you think about it – was fairly remarkable. It did tell a fairly reasonable story, after all.

“But there are people who logged in during the final phrase and got all the loots! omg unfair!”

Yes. But there are just as many people who logged on RIGHT as the event ended. Or people who couldn’t make the event at all. Or people whose overflows got glitched and got nothing at all. What about them?

“But that other guy got the [insert item here!]”

Yes, but to everyone else, they’re all the “other guys.” That is just how RNG works, and if nothing else, it’s a testament to the power of social psychology. Furthermore, we had no way of knowing what was going to be in those chests. They could’ve been all greens and blues and whites for all we knew. Shouldn’t we be at least a little grateful that we got stuff out of it at all?

I think it’s very easy for us to be pointing fingers. But we can just as easily take a step back, take a deep breath, and go outside or do something else. The event’s done. It wasn’t perfect, but you did it. What has happened happened. Are you seriously going to let someone else’s good fortunes be a roadblock for your own happiness?

Think about what motivates you to play, or what motivates you to participate. I think we have a tendency to awfulize too much.

I want to smile and agree with you, but No. Still too angry. Sorry.

Torres.2890:

Logged back on to see if I could still get a reward.

…Jumped to my death afterwards

Sorry but I LOLed. Hard. For me, I fell off a cliff on the way to the event when the champion forced us all onto a bridge and tried to get back too late.

DaShi.1368:

All those people who were dreaming of legendaries thinking, someday I’ll get one. Just need to take my time. Maybe next year. Oh, that guy just got a precursor for a 2 hour event. And that guy too. And that guy…

LOL. awesome. Don’t worry. You are now an official member of the disappointed crowd. We should make a Guild.

Decimus.1829:

The end of today’s event created an MMO buzz unlike anything I’ve been a part of, mainly for one reason: EPIC LOOT IN A GIANT CHEST! Nice call, shake up the economy, and give us what we want. Made the 3 hour event that much better and “worth it”. Our guild of 400+ across 2 OTG guilds was buzzing, big time.

And you can believe, it is gonna make every one want to be there for the next one.

Congrats to you and your guild, but its sucky time for the rest of us that got Jack though.

Oh well, thank you to anyone who read my rant. I am going to see my brother and get some Medal of Honor in. Spending time with family always makes me feel better. Been playing this game since around 9/10 AM CST this morning. Time to get out of the house.

Atomictrex.1406:

Hey all,

Like many I participated in today’s event. During the last leg I died, hit the waypoint and trekked back. By the time I made it back the event was finished and the chest had already vanished. My party both got precursors and I literally got nothing. I’ve opened up a support ticket but I’m not going to hold my breath there.

I’m a longtime GW player and huge supporter of this company but I’m really disappointed with this as I feel like I got screwed in a one time reward that there’s no reason I should have missed.

Anyone else have the same issue?

Join the crowd.

Seera.5916:

As upset as people are over this event, there’s probably not much ANet can do beyond just give out rewards to those who had problems with the event. And they are rightfully upset, especially those who got to the very end of the event only to DC or hang and wind up getting no reward.

For future one time only events I propose the following:

1. Have it run twice, several hours apart. This will also help with a lot of the DC’ing issues as everyone will be more spread out.

2. Every time a major point in the quest is completed (escorting, reinforcements 1, rockslide, reinforcements 2, etc), if you’ve participated in it AT ALL you get a mail with a token (or tokens). However, you can only hold onto a certain number of tokens equal to the amount of parts in the event chain. This will prevent people from doing it twice, simply to get more rewards.

3. For the next few days, there’s a vender in Lion’s Arch that you can trade in your tokens and get your loot. For every X tokens, you get an item. And have it coded that there is a few tokens more just to account for the occasional DC.

For example: event has 10 parts. Each part gives 4 tokens. So you get a total of 40 tokens. For every 6 tokens you get an item for a total of 6 items. It also gives 4 extra tokens for the event. Meaning you can not have progress counted for 1 event part in this case and still get the same amount of items as someone who did every part.

While it wouldn’t be perfect, it would reduce the number of people who don’t get rewards due to reasons beyond their control.

HIRE THIS PERSON. Do it now, ArenaNET.

SKiNBuS.4730:

To better understand the sheer volume of (game related) satisfaction vs being unsatisfied with it… all consolidated it to one simple poll for all to see and Anet to realize.

I think, it would be something we could all reflect on.

Something such as:
1. Happy with the game, service, and all it’s contents.
2. Unsatisfied with the game and level of customer service.
3. Frustrated and on the verge of quitting the game for good.

I can’t create a poll and I’m sure the vote options could be fine tuned but I general I think this would be a great way to implement a poll based ‘customer feedback’ option.

Feel free to comment (in short) or even vote… not the most efficient way but it’s the only option unless Anet agrees and implements a poll question.

Thank you Anet and all of the players for your time, input, and good hunting… in which ever world you choose.

All the best,
SKiNBuS.
-Sea of Sorrows

Put me down for 3. Have had to file TWO event tickets so far for this game, Halloween and now Lost Shores.

Made it a Q&A so we discuss how this time out of lives was not rewarded and how we could have handled it better.

My thread title should read: No reward for participating goes Beyond disappointing ANET.

Why was the reward in a loot box, why could it not have been in mail? I understand that it was loot box to ensure no one AFKed on Lost Shores got something for not participating, but some of us were scrwed over by the end of the event where we got nothing. Nothing AT ALL. I had other things to do, and I spent three hours of my life for absolutely ZIP. To all those I rezzed, I congratulate you on getting to the end. To Arena Net, I just can’t describe just how much more pissed off I am than I was about Halloween.

I am likely NOT gonna make time for the next event, and just focus on enjoying my day. THAT has more reward to it.

I started at 2:09pm Central and got NOTHING by around 4:40PM. What a Waste..